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Five reasons weight-loss jabs alone won’t help get people back to work

Lucie Nield, Senior Lecturer in Nutrition, argues that the Government's plan to trial weight-loss injections to help unemployed people return to work doesn’t address the many core reasons why weight gain and unemployment occur in the first place.

Published by The Conversation
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School of Medicine and Population Health at ISPOR Europe 2024

Our colleagues are back on the road and travelling to Barcelona for this year's ISPOR Europe conference, taking place from 17-20 November. As ever, we have a packed programme of presentations from our staff and students.
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Mobilising NIHR research in public health planning and delivery

Episode 33 of the Communicable Research Podcast examines the topic of mobilising the NIHR's research portfolio to aid public health planning and delivery.

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Green Social Prescribing

Episode 32 of the Communicable Research podcast is out. This time, we went outdoors to talk about Green Social Prescribing with Dr Annette Haywood.
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New online courses this Spring

New online courses this Spring on STATA, Research Synthesis, Social Media for Research Communication, and Developing Complex Interventions to Improve Health
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ScHARR students win awards for academic excellence and achievement

Congratulations to our students on winning the Enderby, Akehurst and Hutchinson Awards.
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ScHARR Mini Master Class in Health Research - Doing Research with People with Learning Disabilities

People with learning disabilities have poorer health and shorter life expectancy, differences that are, to some degree, avoidable.
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Congratulations to Professor Adewale Adebajo honoured in the prestigious 2021 New Year Honours List

Current and former colleagues from our University community have been honoured by Her Majesty The Queen in the 2021 New Year Honours List.
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Short Courses 2020-2022: Online and Face-to-Face

We are changing some of our courses to an online format. Details of online courses will be advertised widely as they become available, please keep an eye out for regular updates!